The Cartoon Picayune #5 (Hard Work)

The Cartoon Picayune is a self-published zine anthology of journalism in the form of comics. Already into its ﬁfth issue, this new publication aspires to serve as the home for truthful reporting in the comics medium. Experience what The Big Planet Comics Podcast calls "The This American Life of comics."

Issue #5 has four stories on a theme of “Hard Work.” Andy Warner, a cartoonist published in many venues including Slate, has a story about the sex workers in San Francisco ﬁghting to change to their legal status. Emi Gennis takes us back with her historical comic about the Radium Girls of the 1930s. Erik Thurman and Editor Josh Kramer round out the issue with two shorter stories about the hard work of South Korean coffee shops and a cookies food truck, respectively. Cover art by Pat Barrett.